Marianne Richmond with Cheryl Burget Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join beloved author and illustrator Marianne Richmond in conversation with Cheryl Burget on Marianne's new memoir: If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart on Thursday, April 3rd at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location!

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have additional books for guests to purchase in store!

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"Marianne Richmond’s early life was shaped by trauma and obfuscation, but in If You Were My Daughter she explores the covenant of motherhood and—with clarity, compassion and wit—reclaims her own story."

— Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

Growing up with misdiagnosed epilepsy, nine-year-old Marianne Richmond desperately hopes for help and healing. But her emotionally unavailable mother refuses Medic*tion on Marianne's behalf, preferring to try prayer and homeopathy. At age 18, a full-body seizure leads to a diagnosis, Medic*tion, and the subsequent discovery and removal of a benign brain tumor. Over decades of physical healing, Marianne finds that emotionally healing from her absent mother is harder to do. So when her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Dementia, Marianne has a choice to make: will she be present for the mother who rarely felt present to her?

If You Were My Daughter is a story of learning to hear your own voice, of one daughter’s return to wholeness, and ultimately, a story of accepting that, despite all hope and longing, a mother’s “best I could” can still be a mismatch for a daughter’s desires. Most of all, Marianne Richmond illuminates how the stories we’re born into shape the ones we tell about ourselves and reminds us that we have the powerful permission to develop a new relationship with what is difficult in our lives and to embody our truest identity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Beloved author and illustrator Marianne Richmond has touched the lives of millions for two decades through her award winning books and other gift products that offer people the most heartfelt way to connect with each other. Inspired by her own undiagnosed epilepsy, Marianne is passionate about the power of storytelling and creative self-expression to learn, heal and grow. A certified reiki master, she is currently in grad school for a master’s degree in mental health counseling.

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